SharpenRake

Not disputing that Craig moved slightly but no rider on gate 4 is looking at the rider on gate 3 and certainly not Steve Worrall who at Ashfield relies on making a good start to win races

Aye right or in Worrall's case eyes right.

Worrall was on gate 4 and Craig on gate 3, so I can't see how Worrall could have been goaded by Craig into jumping the start.

Mike Bennett

That's close to our old track Shawfield. A lot of taxi drivers still think we race there

The seats are comfortable padded benches and you can sit wherever you want apart from directly in front of the refs box. They tend to sell out quickly as others have said.

I think covers only work if the track is not already sodden, so as it has rained for seven days solid there wouldn't have been much opportunity to do so. The track guys were working on the track this afternoon when the sun eventually came out and so fingers crossed we'll be OK for Tuesday night.

As I mentioned above, not sure you saw it, 'First bus no. 500 from airport to Buchanan bus station in the city centre should be operating OK when you arrive. You should check when the last bus goes back to the airport.' Don't think the bus is a 24 hour service.

Just for the avoidance of doubt quite a few of the posters on here recently are from the east. No complaints, they are totally entitled to comment, I'm mearly making an observation for the benefit of Poole fans particularly those that have never encountered banter, sarcasm and criticism before.

First bus no. 500 from airport to Buchanan bus station in the city centre should be operating OK when you arrive. You should check when the last bus goes back to the airport. Remember your face mask/covering for the bus.

Your audition for the circus has been successful.

That's OK just don't have any home matches in July and August. Plenty of dates in September and October

if we can't race at Ashfield cos of the weather perhaps we could have tried Workington but then remembered Workington's Toy8tory

The trouble is today was meant to be quite good in the afternoon BUT it poured down causing horrendous driving conditions. Don't know what impact it has had on the track but up until then I was optimistic, assuming the favourable forecasts were accurate. Just going to have to wait and see.

Exactly you got fined for not completing your league fixtures. Both Poole and Glasgow have completed their league fixtures.

And fan.

Thank you for buying the stream and am pleased you thought the track and racing was good. The efforts of the track staff and volunteers to get this meeting on were unbelievable. Regarding the lights they are ok for those riding and those viewing at the track. Filming always makes things look darker and quite frankly we shouldn't be racing in October so presumably the costs of further upgrading the lights on the off chance that a meeting occurs AND is filmed in October wouldn't be cost-effective. Re-the delays I'm surprised by your comments as you actually watched the stream unlike others who just like to criticise. It may be that some of the info relayed to the crowd via the announcer wasn't repeated by the commentators, so here goes: Heat 4 bad crash resulting in exclusion of Miskowiak and eventual withdrawal from meeting. Heat 6 both GB riders fall, race stopped and re-run with the 2 remaining Poles. Heat 9 delay as doctor assesses Miskowiak, plus member of crowd takes ill and is seen by para medic/first aiders. Also discussions between ref and clerk of the course re-decision of Polish TM as to whether Miskowiak would be replaced by the other U-21 rider in this race. Heat 10 scary crash by Chris Harris, race stopped and re-run. Heat 11 slight delay as Poland forced, under rules, to only go with one rider (see Heat 9). Heat 13 unfortunate delay as Team Managers work out riders for the remaining 3 heats. Under the rules Heat 15 would feature the two top scorers from both teams. In the case of GB this meant Bewley and Lambert or Harris - so not clear cut. In the case of Poland this meant Zmarzlik and Musielak or Janowski - also not clear cut. The remaining riders would then be selected for Heat 13 and 14 with the added issue of what happens to Miskowiak's 'ride' - presumably Lampart? And presumably both team managers were waiting to see what the other would do, after all both teams could still win! All the ref could do was constantly ask the Clerk of the Course to contact him and he did. I suppose he could have put the 2 minute warning on and excluded 'riders' under the 2 minute rule but he like everyone else wanted to see racing not exclusions! Meanwhile whilst all this was happening the rain started and we'll never know who was selected for Heats 14 and 15, unless someone who was in the pits can advise. I was hoping for a SoN rematch in a last heat decider, that would have been something else, but we'll never know.

And he's a brilliant gater which will only help his scoring at Shielfield.

I meant Marcin's bike failure probably cost us a point and it could be crucial this evening.

That explains everything. Clearly it's the Sellafield 'effect'

Thing is, Cookie is clearly not well and he is our talisman. When he goes out and wins heat one passing the oppositions number 1 it seems to galvanise the rest of the team. Just hope he's taking it easy with a few lemsips to ward off the dreaded lurgie.

Can't use a guest from another team involved in the play offs. Edit just read other post.

I thought it meant "hates tory' due to the lack of jobs in nw England etc and wondered whats that got to do with speedway

Still don't believe it, great result and great performance from all seven tigers. Special mention for the track staff who managed to produce two raceable surfaces over the last two nights despite the weather. Still worried about tomorrow and just hope Marcin's engine failure in heat 14 isn't costly.